Needle-woven tapestry



(ModeL) M. E. TILLINGHAST,

NEEDLE WOVEN TAPESTRY.

' Patented Nov. 28, 1882.

Illl lllllll lqlaail I!" Ill ll IIIII MARY E. TILLINGHAST, OF WEST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

NEEDLE-WOV EN TAPESTTRY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 268,149, dated November 28, 1882.

Application filed J To all whom it may concern: a

Be it known that I, MARY E. TILLINGHAST, of West'Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new atticle of manufacture of artistic character, which may be termed Needle-Woven Tapestry, and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being bad to the drawings which accompany and form a part of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a detail view of one exampe of the fabric which constitutes the groundwork of my new manufacture, on an enlarged scale. Fig. 2 is another detail view, on a still larger scale,showing the method of using the needle. Fig. 3 is a view of asample of tapestry when finished according to my invention. Fig. 4 is a side view of the fabric in the direction indicated bythe arrows in Fig. 2, but on a still largehscale, showing one of the embroidery-threads in position. I

The natut eof-t his invention consists in weaving with a needle av pictured design into a suitable fabric by means of various-colored silks or threads in such a manner that the design, when finished, shall present the appearance of being a part of the original fabric.

To make this tapestry it is first necessary that a suitable material to serve as a background or groundwork for the design should I be prepared. This may be done, especially in double and triple ply goods, by causing the proposed fabric to be woven with spaces equal to about the width or thickness of one, or in some instances more than one, of the woofthreads lelt between every two or other prac- {11 19, 1881. (ModeL) spaces of the woof, the threads of thelatter be- 5 5' ing seen at 1 l 1, and the effect produced by the colored oro rnamental threads, when drawn in, being shown at b b in the same figure. As shown in the figure,-these ornamental threads are held in place by being passed under the warp-threads where the latter appear on the surface between the woof-threads. It is, however, 'proper to say that it is not essential that they should pass under every warp-thread. The number ofconsecntive warp-threads under which they shall pass is dependent upon the length of the stitches to be made with the ornamental threads, and whether these stitches shall be longer or shorter is governed by the artistic requirements of the design to be reproduced. The work, when finished in this manner, will be found to be very effective, and for purposes of decoration or lor any artistic use it presents an extremely rich appearance and is of great value.. It diii'ers materially from all other decorative work done with the needle in the fact that it causes the design to seem part of the materlal of the background, the reason of this result being in great measare that by my method the threads which form the picture can be made substantially flush with the surface of the material, and when each of the silks or threads which are run imareas Ialways prefer they should becomposed of separate threads or filaments of di'fl'ereilt colors or otiflifferent shades of the emf whidhshould harmonize with ttie background, the picturebecomes virtuallya portion of the original fabric.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is i;

of a needle-woven tapestry in which a pictured design is formed by the combination, with a 9 abric or background having spaces between its woof-threadsfot' colored or ornamental threads woverror tilled only into these spaces and secured therein by being passed under one or more of the warp-threads lying between the I woof-threads, so that the design will appear as part of the original fabric,.substantially -as described." x

in any desired artistic combination into such of the spaces left between the woof-threads as may be desired or necessary. The manner in which this is done is clearly shown in Fig. 2, in which the needle is represented at a as in the act of being drawn into and. through then MARY E. TILLTNGHAST.

Witnesses WM. J. ENRIGHT, a FREDERICK GoLnINe.

The new article of manufacture consisting 

